It’s time to fight back against America’s bullies

public will never trust him to be impartial.

Many will never believe his denials of sexual harassment. Most will continue to see him as the privileged, arrogant, selfrighteous person he revealed himself to be.

Which brings us to the upcoming midterm elections.

It’s not really a contest between Democrats or Republicans, left or right.

It’s a contest between the bullies and the bullied. It’s about the power of those who are rich, white, privileged or male — or all of the above — to threaten and intimidate those who aren’t.

And it’s about the courage of the bullied to fight back.

Donald Trump is America’s bully-inchief.

He exemplifies those who use their wealth to gain power and celebrity, harass or abuse women and get away with it, lie and violate the law with impunity, and rage against anyone who calls them on their bullying.

Trump became president by exploiting the anger of millions of white workingclass Americans who for decades have been economically bullied by corporate executives and Wall Street.

Trump used this anger to build his political base, channeling the frustrations and anxieties into racism and nativism.

He encouraged Americans who have been bullied to feel more powerful by bullying people with even less power: poor blacks, Latinos, immigrants, Muslims, families seeking asylum.

This bullying game has been played repeatedly in history, by self-described strongmen who pretend to be tribunes of the oppressed by scapegoating the truly powerless.

The moneyed interests are America’s hidden bullies. They have enlarged their net worth by repressing wages (or pushing the companies they invest in to do so), and enlarged their political power through gerrymandering and suppressing votes (or pushing their political lackeys to do so).

It is time to fight back against the bullies. It is time to join together to reclaim economic and political power.

It begins with the midterm elections Nov. 6.